Commit Graph

16 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Vas Crabb
f47f9c3db3
ui, docs: Added menus to fill a couple of gaps, improved consistency. (#9915)
Added menus for controlling toggle inputs, and showing recognised input
devices and control state.  Moved input menu options off main menu to a
submenu, as there are a lot of them now.

Moved menu heading drawing into base class, added headings to more
menus, and made headings more consistent with the menu items used to
reach them.  Also made terminology more consistent.

Changed the default names for buttons and hat switches/D-pads to use
1-based numbering.  DirectInput still returns 0-based button numbers for
some devices.

Removed local copy of MinGW xaudio2.h as it’s now included in the MSYS2
package.  Also fixed building the DirectSound sound output module with
the SDL OSD on Windows - the Windows headers are sensitive to include
order.

Started adding documentation for menus, to hopefully help people find
menus they remember seeing but can't recall how to access.

For translators, this makes terminology more consistent.  In particular:
* "Settings" is preferred over "configuration" in a number of places, as
  the latter can be construed as referring specifically to settings
  stored in .cfg files in the cfg_directory folder.  Also, references to
  saving machine configuration could be interpreted as relating to the
  settings on the "Machine Configuration" menu.
* The controls on host input devices (e.g. keys, buttons, joystick axes)
  are referred to as "controls", while emulated inputs are referred to
  as "inputs".
* The menus for assigning host controls to emulated inputs are called
  "input assignments" menus to distinguish them from other input
  settings menus.
* Combinations of controls that can be assigned to emulated inputs are
  referred to as "combinations" rather than "sequences".
* The potentially confusing term "ROM set" has been removed altogether.
  Use "short name" to refer to a device or system's identifier.
* "System" is used in almost places to refer to a complete, runnable
  system rather than "Machine".
* "Driver" is now only used to refer to source files where systems or
  devices are defined - it is no longer used to refer to individual
  systems.
* A few more menus have message context for the messages.  This makes it
  a bit easier to guess where the messages are used.  It also means you
  can use different translations in different places if necessary (e.g.
  if the same English text should be translated differently as an item
  in one menu and as a heading in another).
2022-06-11 21:47:19 +10:00
Vas Crabb
669b1f6ade -docs: Started documenting plugins.
* Also added a couple of missing command-line options, and added a local
  table of contents to the (rather long) command line options page.

-Added a separate CI target for localisation updates that produces an
 artefact, and removed the message catalogs from the trigger paths for
 the Linux CI build.
2021-10-24 05:48:05 +11:00
Vas Crabb
2a14b9446d docs: Still more cleanup on the FAQ page. 2021-10-22 07:39:06 +11:00
Vas Crabb
95ae7be39a docs: More adjustments. 2021-10-22 07:19:32 +11:00
Robbbert
a6055409ba commonissues.rst: Fixed bad English. 2021-10-22 04:17:26 +11:00
Vas Crabb
aa3643d5b7 plugins/timer: Fixed ticking when menu is left on the screen. 2021-10-22 03:46:00 +11:00
Vas Crabb
d85735634c version bump for 0.227, some documentation clean-up 2020-12-31 02:46:10 +11:00
Firehawke
7b6dbd7a14
First completed pass of commandline parameters. (nw) (#6711)
* First completed pass of commandline parameters. (nw)

* Further refinements on commandline (nw)

* Get the audio latency numbers right and add PortAudio info.

* FreeSync/GSync information cleanup.

* Minor additions to G-Sync/FreeSync.

* Add tip for keyboardprovider, remove biospath, correct anchor positioning (nw)

* A few corrections per Vas (nw)
2020-06-12 14:26:28 +10:00
Firehawke
a10af356cc Update documentation (nw)
* Update MAME docs revision to 0.216
* Add FAQ question about autofire with walkthrough of setup process.
* Add VSCode .gitignore for RST compilation temporary folder (/docs/source/_build)
* Add a caveat about autofire+normal fire mapping
* Add -lowlatency to the docs.
2019-11-25 18:51:44 +11:00
Firehawke
a2e218f853 Clean up phrasing a bit on input from MG (nw) 2018-10-19 17:02:01 -07:00
Firehawke
ae97f80cb3 Update FAQ (nw) with HLSL/BGFX update info, old external OPL2 support information 2018-10-19 16:47:47 -07:00
Firehawke
52667a4b20 Basic anchor links for FAQ page (#2975) 2017-12-27 14:23:37 -05:00
Vas Crabb
66f1cb5f3a srcclean again (nw) 2016-11-30 07:04:04 +11:00
Firehawke
ce943bd45b NW - More documentation updates..
* Fix a few 'mess' references.
* Add important note for -listslots
* FAQ: Wouldn't MAME be faster if X?
2016-10-29 23:32:36 -07:00
Firehawke
9d93c07c66 First draft on ROM management for newbies, FAQ entry on common problems with unofficial builds 2016-09-05 00:21:23 -07:00
Miodrag Milanovic
cb30b9d307 Added documentation to main tree (nw) 2016-08-24 15:16:43 +02:00